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Corpus callosum agenesis, severe mental retardation, epilepsy, and dyskinetic quadriparesis due to a novel mutation in the homeodomain of ARX.
American journal of medical genetics. Part A - 1 Apr 2011
Conti Valerio, Marini Carla, Gana Simone, Sudi Jyotsna, Dobyns William B, Guerrini Renzo
Abstract excerpt
We report on a patient with agenesis of the corpus callosum (ACC), severe mental retardation, infantile spasms and subsequent intractable epilepsy, spastic/dyskinetic quadriparesis, severe limb contractures, and scoliosis. This complex, newly described phenotype, is due to a novel non-conservative missense mutation in the ARX homeodomain (c.1072A>T; p.R358W), inherited from the unaffected mother. Differently from...
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